Word: expression
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With these attributes. Cagney manages to suggest George M. Cohan without carbon-copying the classic trouper. He has the Cohan trick of nodding and winking to express approval, the outthrust jaw, stiff-legged stride, bantam dance routines, side-of-the-mouth singing, the air of likable conceit. For the rest, he remains plain Jimmy Cagney. It is a remarkable performance, possibly Cagney's best, and it makes Yankee Doodle a dandy...
...Hurs had asked was the release of their hero and chief, Pir of Pagaro, from a British jail. They had asked it as well as they knew how, couching their demands in terms of 1) robbery, 2) murder, 3) assorted violence, including the derailing of several express trains...
...imports were put in a strait jacket last week. Starting July 2, practically nothing can be imported from anywhere without express authorization of the War Production Board. Primary and only ostensible purpose of the new order was to make sure that no precious shipping space is wasted on imports the U.S. can do without. Secondary but studiously unmentioned result is to give the Government an important new weapon of economic warfare...
These remarks are based on a poll of the members of the Class of 1945, in which they were asked to express their frank and honest opinions of their courses. Naturally, views on most courses varied from "superdooper " to "putrid," but those included in the Guide are fairly typical...
Atlanta. Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sutton lived in a grey, asbestos-shingled cottage (rented) in a solid, modest, workingman's district. Ted Sutton, 38, was a truck driver for the Railway Express. On Sundays he was an usher at the Baptist Church, sang in the choir...